"The
Café Accordion Orchestra is a dance band for people who still love
to waltz and rhumba, an old-school combo. Led by the quietly dazzling Dan
Newton, this quintet knows the value of understatement, warmth, discretion,
subtlety and easy and genuine swing - not the zoot-suited kids' cliché
that's all the rage. "On Holiday" is subtitled "a musical
cruise," and the Café Accordion cats make happy stopovers in
Paris, Puerto Rico, Tin Pan Alley and the land of Louis Jordan. They'll make
your toes tap, your eyes twinkle and your heart long for a shipboard romance..."

"Imagine yourself in Paris sipping espresso at a sidewalk café and
listening to a group of strolling musicians. Café Accordion Orchestra
can take you there.... With a somewhat unconventional approach to the
craft, and the honest talent to make it all work, CAO proves that bringing
back the past doesn't have to be done in an over-exposed, commercial
way. Forget all those hip new swing bands with their zoot suits and martinis;
CAO is the real deal. And you won't be seeing them in any Gap ads, either."

Katherine Kelly/Minnesota Daily, Nov. 12, 1998

"Sit back, relax, pour yourself a glass of something nice and put
this disc in the player. Or, better yet, clear the floor for dancing. The
Café Accordion Orchestra...will gladly transport you to another
time, another place.... For the fan of fine accordion music, this is a
must, and if you don't like the much maligned squeezebox, this recording
could very well convert you."

SingOut! Dec/Jan '96-'97

"The recent boom in world music has brought a lot of new sounds to
U.S. listeners' ears. But the Café Accordion Orchestra plays the
kind of gentle, enticing, low-volume world music that Americans already
knew about in the Kennedy era: waltzes, French Café sounds, bossa
novas, sambas and tangos."

Minneapolis Star Tribune, 1993

"Two words come to mind as I listen to Dancing on the Moon by CAPA
member Dan Newton's Café Accordion Orchestra: mellow and hip."